First day of heatwave

 I practiced some octaves on the flute headjoint and it went Meh. I was too tired to feel like doing more. 

I woke up in time to do a haircut, shave/trim including shave the back of my neck, do a good scrub-down overall, and jump into clean clothes before taking off for the bank. 

I've already gotten the money back for the bamboo shinobue from Mejiro, and they've told me it's going to be a lot cheaper for me to mail it back to them using the US Postal Service rather than DHL if I don't have a DHL account, so I thanked them for the tip and will do it that way. 

It was really warm out there. After the bank I went over to Whole Foods and got 4 meatballs and some mushrooms which only cost about $4.50, and a Lagunitas hop drink upstairs, and ended up talking with a guy about records and record collecting etc. I asked him if he knew about Needle In The Groove, and he said a friend of his owns it. He said people come in there and spend thousands at a time. We talked about old video games too, and apparently the "treasure cave" underneath Fix Laptop has only improved. It's fun running into people like that. 

I rode over to Willow Glen and it was really hot over there. I got some alcohol-free Guinness and a 6-pack of O'Doul's too, at the BevMo there. But it felt like the heat was so bad, people just didn't want to be out and about. None of the musicians or other hanger-outers were around. I almost felt a bit ill from the heat and since I'd parked my bike by Peet's, I figured I'd go in and get an espresso and some ice water but they'd closed. I was just too late. Maybe the musicians *were* around an hour earlier. 

I puttered my way back, not hurrying at all so I'd not get overheated, and pretty soon was downtown again. I noticed that downtown Willow Glen had been really hot, but because of the tall buildings in downtown San Jose, it was quite a bit cooler. Call it the canyon effect or something. 

I stopped at Nijiya for some things, then got back here, went to the "bountiful" dumpster for a few things, then got back and settled in for the night and sent a message to this one guy that he can come over and get his Ebay thing, which he did with no problem.